Law of the jungle

"The law of the jungle" (also called jungle law) is an expression that has come to describe a scenario where "anything goes". The phrase was introduced in Rudyard Kipling's 1894 work The Jungle Book, where it described the self-supportive behaviour of wolves in a pack. Quotes Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky, And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book (1895), "The Law of the Jungle" External links Category:Phrases